6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
14 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
15 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
17 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
18 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort)
22 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
23 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
29 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
30 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
31 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
35 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
36 the committer identity of yourself.
40 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
45 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
48 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
52 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
56 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
57 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
58 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
59 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
60 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
62 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
63 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
66 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
67 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
71 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
72 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
73 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
77 --ignore-space-change::
79 --whitespace=<option>::
84 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
92 --committer-date-is-author-date::
93 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
94 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
95 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
96 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
97 value as the author date.
100 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
101 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
102 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
103 user to lie about the author date by using the same
104 value as the committer date.
107 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
108 restarting an aborted patch.
112 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
113 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
114 the index file stores the result of the application.
115 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
116 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
120 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
121 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
122 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
123 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
124 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
127 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
132 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
133 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
134 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
135 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
136 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
137 commit is about in one line of text.
139 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
140 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
142 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
143 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
144 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
145 line is automatically stripped.
147 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
148 message. Any line that is of the form:
150 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
151 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
152 * a line that begins with "Index: "
154 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
155 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
157 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
158 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
159 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
161 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
164 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
165 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
166 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
168 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
169 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
170 run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
173 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
174 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
175 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
176 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
177 errors in the "From:" lines).
182 linkgit:git-apply[1].
187 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
191 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
195 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite